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201Tl for the differential diagnosis of cold thyroid nodules

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Ricerca in clinica e in laboratorio

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We used201Tl-chloride for studying and differentiating thyroid areas shown to be ‘cold’ in previous131I or99mTc scanning. We investigated sixteen thyroid neoplasms that were removed surgically shortly afterwards. We found an intense intranodular accumulation of201Tl in five scintigraphs shown to be of histologically malignant neoplasms, and an intense accumulation also in one of those shown to be histologically benign. We did not detect any201Tl-chloride accumulation in two cases of thyroiditis; one of these had shown an intense accumulation in a previous131Cs scintigram.

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  1. Ospedale Generale Regionale S.M. dei Battuti, Istituto di Radioterapia e Medicina Nucleare, 31100, Treviso, Italia

    Franco Palermo, Alberto Cadel, Gianfranco Bordignon, Federico Bruniera, Livio Caldato, Maurizio Della Siega, Mario Lazzarini & Antonio Mareso

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Palermo, F., Cadel, A., Bordignon, G. et al. 201Tl for the differential diagnosis of cold thyroid nodules. La Ricerca Clin. Lab. 7, 289–295 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02881823

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